FADED PIECE OF HISTORY
If you look closely you can make out the faded lettering of "Alabama Heading Co." on the brick wall of this old warehouse on Noble Avenue in downtown Thomasville. The brick warehouse is roofless today and through the arched doorways you can see underbrush growing up inside. In the early 1900s, though, it was an important storage facility for pine staves that were cut in mills around the region and brought into Thomasville for storage in the warehouse until they could be shipped out by rail, explained Laverne Mott, a county resident well-versed in the history of the area. The staves were made into barrels, or kegs, that a number of products were shipped in before cardboard and plastic containers became popular. Mott said Alabama Heading had a mill in Thomasville that made the round ends, or caps- "headings"- for the barrels. The barrels were not assembled in Thomasville but were shipped out as bundled packages for later assembly.
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